{"id":344990,"date":"2026-09-12T14:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344990\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:02:52","slug":"2-men-shot-and-killed-at-brownsville-brooklyn-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344990\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men shot and killed at Brownsville, Brooklyn playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"eabyj\">Two men were shot and killed at a Brownsville playground Friday night, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5p94\">Police responded to a report of gunshots at Howard Playground, located near the corner of Mother Gaston Boulevard and Glenmore Avenue in Brooklyn, just before 10:30 p.m., officials said. When officers arrived, they found a 33-year-old man who had been shot in the neck and a 35-year-old man who had been shot in the chest and ankle, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2mldu\">Emergency responders took the 33-year-old to Interfaith Medical Center and the 35-year-old to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, police said. Both men died as a result of their injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7fjvn\">As of Saturday morning, police said they had no additional information about the shooting. The department has made no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dn5f3\">The playground sits within the Howard Houses complex, a NYCHA development.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"f1g6r\">The NYPD said it is withholding the names of the two men while family is notified.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a2mpr\">The 73rd Precinct, which covers Brownsville, had recorded five murders this year through Sept. 6, compared with three at the same point last year, according to the NYPD&#8217;s most recent data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were shot and killed at a Brownsville playground Friday night, according to the NYPD. Police responded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-344990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}